A theft from South Africa’s president. A silence from South Africa | World News,The Indian Express

Two years after a robbery at Ramaphosa’s game farm, a political foe is alleging that the president covered up a theft of between $4 million and $8 million in U.S.

Namibian investigators were hot on the trail of the suspected burglars. After receiving a tip about a sensational heist — the theft of cash from a farm belonging to President Cyril Ramaphosa of neighbouring South Africa — they had traced large money transfers that the suspects made from South African to Namibian bank accounts.

All that was left to make a case against the suspects was to link the money to the burglary.

But when Justice Ministry officials in Namibia reached out to their counterparts in South Africa for confirmation, they say they got an unusual response that killed their case: silence.

Now, two years later, that silence is raising new questions about whether Ramaphosa was trying to hide the theft from public view and mobilizing the government apparatus to help him do so.

The burglary of the president’s farm in South Africa, 650 miles from the border with Namibia, occurred in February 2020 but only became widely known this month. A political foe of the president levelled bombshell allegations that Ramaphosa had between $4 million and $8 million in U.S. currency stolen from his property, and then covered up the theft to avoid scrutiny over having large sums of cash tucked away.

https://indianexpress.com/article/world/a-theft-from-south-africas-president-a-silence-from-south-africa-7984136/


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